Pentagon Says Accounting Mistake Frees Up $3 Billion More for #Ukraine
The Biden administration has been under bipartisan pressure to explain how it intended to continue sending
The #Pentagon has significantly reduced its estimate of the value of #weapons it has sent to Ukraine amid intensifying pressure to explain how it intends to keep Ukrainian troops supplied without approaching Congress to replenish its budget before the end of the fiscal year.
The revised accounting frees up $3 billion worth of weapons that could be given to Ukraine from existing stocks, Pentagon and State Department officials told a skeptical audience of congressional staff members on Thursday, some of whom spoke about the change on the condition of anonymity to discuss private briefings from the administration.
